Game Training Phase – FFA National Curriculum

The Game Training Phase has two main objectives:

Preparing players for senior football by teaching them to apply functional game skills in a team setting using 1-4-3-3 as the preferred formation
Developing tactical awareness, perception and decision-making through a game-related approach to training.

Game Training Phase sessions consist of 4 components: Warm up, Positioning Game, Game Training, Training Game.

Communication: Team Task and Player Tasks

Decision Making and Execution of Decisions: Cues

For example, for every football action (pass/shot/dribble/run/press etc), consider the player’s:

Position – Body shape and use of space (passing lanes, between lines, level and outside)
Moment – Timing (too early, too late or ideal, and checking runs)
Direction – Accuracy, angle (straight or curved), distance and height
Speed – Power (too slow, too fast or ideal)